2008 Dubai
April 2008: Dubai is a wonderful place for crane spotters. One sixth of the world’s cranes are here, scatterd across a city that is rising out of the desert. Here, skyscrapers, cranes and electricity pylons crowd up into a sky heavy with sand carried in the wind from Iran. A world in which the sand of the desert is tamed by concrete and reinforced steel.
The shopping malls teem with Arab women hidden behind black veils; Russian women with thrusting cleavages; young Arab blades with baseball caps and flowing white robes; English men with shaven heads, tattoos and football shirts and Phillipina maids staring at the Gucci handbags that they can not afford.
